2026 Michael E. J. Masson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	52	4936	4576	330	307	138	13472

Overview

Michael E. J. Masson is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their scholarly work encompasses multiple domains within psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive aspects of action and motor processes, language comprehension, and neural dynamics.

Masson's research spans several key topics including:

Action Observation and Synchronization
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Motor Control and Adaptation
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Child and Animal Learning Development
Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
Neural Dynamics and Brain Function

Their work primarily falls within the main fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with subfield concentrations in:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology

Michael E. J. Masson has published extensively in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
Nature Communications
Attention Perception & Psychophysics
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Notable recent papers include:

"A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)" (2021) published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
"Linking emotional valence and anxiety in a mouse insula-amygdala circuit" (2023) published in Nature Communications
"Motor representations evoked by objects under varying action intentions." (2020) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
"The role of cognitive control and top-down processes in object affordances" (2021) published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics
"On the nature of action-sentence compatibility effects." (2024) published in Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Masson collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

Daniel N. Bub
Richard D. Morey
Michael P. Kaschak
Antonio M. Díez-Álamo
Arthur M. Glenberg

Best Publications

Using confidence intervals in within-subject designs

Geoffrey R. Loftus;Michael E. J. Masson

2994
Citations
Using confidence intervals for graphically based data interpretation.

Michael E. J. Masson;Geoffrey R. Loftus

910
Citations
A tutorial on a practical Bayesian alternative to null-hypothesis significance testing.

Michael E. J. Masson

901
Citations
A distributed memory model of semantic priming.

Michael E. J. Masson

691
Citations
So Much to Read, So Little Time How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?

Keith Rayner;Elizabeth R. Schotter;Michael E. J. Masson;Mary C. Potter

388
Citations
Altering memory representations through retrieval.

Mark A. McDaniel;Michael E. Masson

358
Citations
SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY EFFECTS IN WORD IDENTIFICATION

Ron Borowsky;Michael E. J. Masson

351
Citations
Working memory and individual differences in comprehension and memory of text.

Michael E. J. Masson;Jo Ann Miller

338
Citations
Evocation of functional and volumetric gestural knowledge by objects and words.

Daniel N. Bub;Michael E.J. Masson;George S. Cree

333
Citations
A linear mixed model analysis of masked repetition priming

Reinhold Kliegl;Michael E.J. Masson;Eike M. Richter

272
Citations
Adult age differences in direct and indirect tests of memory.

David F. Hultsch;Michael E. J. Masson;Brent J. Small

228
Citations
A Distributed Memory Model of Context Effects in Word Identification

Michael E.J. Masson

226
Citations
Sources of bias in the Goodman-Kruskal gamma coefficient measure of association: implications for studies of metacognitive processes.

Michael E. J. Masson;Caren M. Rotello

223
Citations
Grasping beer mugs: on the dynamics of alignment effects induced by handled objects.

Daniel N. Bub;Michael E. J. Masson

217
Citations
Reenacting the route to interpretation: Enhanced perceptual identification without prior perception.

Michael E. J. Masson;Colin M. MacLeod

212
Citations
Beyond spreading activation: An influence of relatedness proportion on masked semantic priming

Glen E. Bodner;Michael E. J. Masson

208
Citations
Implicit Memory : New Directions in Cognition, Development, and Neuropsychology

Peter Graf;Michael E.J. Masson

206
Citations
Prime Validity Affects Masked Repetition Priming: Evidence for an Episodic Resource Account of Priming

Glen E. Bodner;Michael E.J. Masson

188
Citations
Masked Repetition Priming of Words and Nonwords: Evidence for a Nonlexical Basis for Priming

Glen E. Bodner;Michael E.J. Masson

178
Citations
Conceptual processing of text during skimming and rapid sequential reading.

Michael E. J. Masson

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel N. Bub University of Victoria

Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam

D. Stephen Lindsay University of Victoria

Bruce W. A. Whittlesea Simon Fraser University

Mark A. McDaniel Washington University in St. Louis

David F. Hultsch University of Victoria

Brent J. Small University of South Florida

Isabel Gauthier Vanderbilt University

Geoffrey R. Loftus University of Washington

Betty Ann Levy McMaster University

External Links

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